Administration | Hearing Examiner
have such training or experience as will qualify him or her to conduct administrative or quasi-judicial hearings on regulatory enactments and to discharge the other functions conferred upon him or her, and shall hold no other appointive or elective public office or position in the City government except as provided herein.
c. Appeals from notices and orders and stop work orders issued pursuant to SMC Title 23; d. Appeals from decisions regarding the abatement of a nonconformance;
e. Type 3 and Type 4 decisions;
F. Pro tem examiners
f. Appeals from public safety seizures and intended forfeitures, when properly designated by the chief law enforcement officer of the department as provided in RCW 69.50.505; g. Appeals from the department’s final decisions regarding transportation concurrency, mitigation payment system and intersection standards provisions of Chapter 21.08 SMC; h. Other applications or appeals that the City council may prescribe by ordinance. 2. The examiner’s decision may be to grant or deny the application or appeal, or the examiner may grant the application or appeal with such conditions, modifications, and restrictions as the examiner finds necessary to make the application or appeal compatible with the environment and carry out applicable state laws and regulations, including Chapter 43.21C RCW and the regulations, policies, objectives, and goals of the interim comprehensive plan or neighborhood plans, the development code, the subdivision code, and other official laws, policies and objectives of the City of Sammamish.
The City council may appoint qualified persons to serve as hearing examiner pro tempore, as needed, to expeditiously hear pending applications and appeals.
G. Jurisdiction of the hearing examiner
1. The examiner shall receive and examine available information, conduct open record public hearings, prepare records and reports thereof, and issue final decisions, including findings and conclusions, based on the issues and evidence in the record, which shall be appealable to superior court as provided by SDC 21.09.020U., in the following cases: a. Appeals from the decisions of the director for short subdivisions, including those variance decisions of the City engineer made pursuant to the public works standards as adopted in SDC 21.08.010 with regard to circulation in the subject short subdivisions; b. Appeals of all Type 2 land use decisions with the exception of appeals of shoreline permits including
shoreline variances and conditional uses that are appealable to the State Shoreline Hearings Board;
632 | Title 21: Sammamish Development Code
Effective | January 1, 2022
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